Headcanon for high school, normal world au Wyndolls pretty please?
I have like a million ideas for this bc I love them so here’s one version lol :P
Wynonna’s lived in Purgatory all her life and is a social outcast thanks to accidentally shooting her drunk dad dead in an effort to save her younger sister Waverly from his abuse. Xavier “Call me Dolls” is a transfer student who is a social outcast bc he’s a black American man now living in what appears to be a pretty conservative small town. They meet freshman year, and do not get along right away because Dolls’ straight A, sports star vibe cramps her straight-to-detention, rebel child style. Despite the mutual skepticism, they quickly become best friends after Dolls stands up for her to a group of hockey jerks and she punches the ringleader on Dolls’ behalf in response to a racist comment.
Throughout the years, they grow closer. Wynonna opens up to him about how her older sister Willa’s kidnapping has affected her, and Dolls confides in her about the pressures of growing up an orphan adopted into a rigid military family. Wynonna swallows her pride over being “too cool for school” and cheers him on at sports games, and he supports her through several ill-fated hookups/situationships with guys that, if you ask him, are not nearly good enough for her....not that he likes her or anything.
The two of them never make it to junior prom. Instead, they spend the evening watching the stars at the Homestead and joking about which teacher chaperone has been forced to lead the funky chicken. There’s a moment where she leans in and he brushes her hair behind her ear and they almost kiss, but then Gus is calling Wynonna’s name and Dolls has curfew and the moment disappears.
By senior year, they’ve acquired a few more members of their ragtag team. Wynonna’s younger sister Waverly follows them around as much as possible, claiming it’s because she needs Dolls to tutor her in calculus. After a school-wide sexting scandal destroys her popularity, rich-girl-gone-bad Mercedes latches onto Wynonna. Dolls brings a fellow military brat and sports star named Nicole into the fray (Wynonna is only jealous for like, half a second until she finds out the girl is gay) and eventually Wynonna’s chemistry lab partner Jeremy Chetri joins as well. What Wynonna and Dolls don’t know is that every member of their weird gang is positive that they are meant for one another and are constantly meddling to make it so.
A few weeks out of graduation, they have a massive fight over Wynonna deciding to run off to Europe to get away from it all. Dolls was under the impression it was just going to be a gap year, but Wynonna admits she’s not sure she’ll ever come back to Purgatory. Hurt, Dolls reveals he got into an American university, but was planning to reject it because he didn’t want to leave her behind. Guilty, Wynonna tells him he should go because there isn't anything between them. They go their separate ways after graduation, and are separated for the next five years (though obviously still pining). That is, until Waverly secretly invites Dolls to her and Nicole’s wedding where Wynonna is the maid of honor...